https://bugs.koha-community.org/bugzilla3/show_bug.cgi?id=37136
--- Comment #4 from [email protected] --- After some more work I did cataloging in Koha I can now say I think it is indeed worth it and I would highly recommend adding google books, Katrin, even if it would mean that it would create just a basic MARC record. Here’s why: 1. I have added quite a few really good library sources to Koha using irspy, but even Library of Congress itself, and also Harvard etc not always have a really pristine Marc record for every book. Actually, LOC itself has many Marc records for books where even the title is missing! 2. Google books would at least give in most cases: ISBN, Title, Author, Publisher. It’s true that it would in most cases (I think) be missing the LOC call number, but just having Google Books as a “source” option would allow the librarian to choose their source. 3. We are finding that Google Books is getting results 70-80% or more for our books. Whereas Z39 search from current good sources we added are getting less than 50%. Just to add Google books as a source in z39 search or somewhere in Koha would increase our productivity tremendously. While we are a special library as we focus on Jewish subjects, however our books also include Medical, Ethics, Literature etc so I am sure that such a feature would benefit other small-medium libraries who need a fast cataloging option. 4. A google record could always later be enganced manually by the librarian searching for the LOC call number, page count etc and adding it. As I mentioned before, this data is anyways missing in many cases even in LOC records. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are watching all bug changes. You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Koha-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.koha-community.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/koha-bugs website : http://www.koha-community.org/ git : http://git.koha-community.org/ bugs : http://bugs.koha-community.org/
